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" Egyptian Arlington Beets .30 
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4 ** lee Cream Water Melon.25 
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THEVAN DUSEN NURSERIES 
C.C. McKAY, Mgr. Dept. R, GENEVA, N.Y. 
Pollinating the Wilder Grape 
T have several Wilder grapevines, five 
years old, and they bear very sparingly, 
although they bloom profusely. I under¬ 
stand the variety is self-sterile. They arc 
growing in close proximity to other hear¬ 
ing varieties, such as Worden, Oaco, 
Campbell and Catawba. In same vine¬ 
yard there are other varieties. Notwith¬ 
standing this, little or no fruit sets on 
them. The Wilder vines are strong and 
vigorous, and I dislike to destroy them 
and wait four or five years to produce as 
good vines of other varieties if I can pol¬ 
linate their blossoms. I always under¬ 
stood that sterile grapes planted among 
fertile grapes would be pollenized by the 
fertile varieties, but it does not seem to 
work with mine. I shall have two colo¬ 
nies of bees near these grapes next, season, 
and I thought possibly they might be of 
some help in pollenizing the Wilder. 1 
also thought possibly I could do this by 
hand with a camel’s-hair brush. What 
variety of grapes blossom at same time 
as the Wilder (Rogers No. 27) ? I would 
also like to know what varieties are self- 
sterile or partially so. I have the follow¬ 
ing varieties of grapes fruiting : Worden, 
Campbell's Early. Moore’s Early, Oaco, 
Green Mountain. Brighton, Eaton. Kings, 
Delaware, Agawam, Ideal, Concord, 
Catawba. F. P. B. 
ITasbrouck Heights, N. J. 
The Wilder grape is one of the host 
examples of self-sterility, and experiments 
have shown that all conditions must he 
mot if its blossoms be fertilized by fertile 
varieties, even when the latter stand in 
close proximity to the self-sterile variety. 
For example, we have five plants of 
Eclipse that have self-fertile varieties on 
three sides and adjacent to them, yet it 
is only an occasional season that market¬ 
able clusters are produced on this variety. 
The first condition that favors cross¬ 
pollination is the same approximate 
blooming period. However, this alone is 
not sufficient, for while the blossom may 
have thrown off its cap and is apparently 
in full bloom at the same time that an¬ 
other has apparently reached the same 
stage, yet the maturity of the pollen may 
not conform to the reeeptivoness of the 
stigma. Our records show that while 
two varieties may bloom at approximately 
the same time one season there may he 
a wide divergence the next. This may be 
due to a difference in the plant food re¬ 
serves stored the previous season, to in¬ 
jury from low Winter temperatures or 
to some unknown factors. Even though 
self-sterile varieties be in proximity to 
self-fertile varieties, climatic conditions 
at blooming time may completely nullify 
such favorable situation. In Western 
New York bees, so far as the writer’s 
observation goes, work but little, if any, 
on the blossoms of the principal commer¬ 
cial varieties, yet on some of the wild 
species growing on our grounds, and 
which have very fragrant blossoms, they 
work in great numbers. In some tests 
in which bees were confined in Cages 
placed over vines the bees did not visit 
the blooms, hut clustered on the sides 
of the cage. 
If two varieties, one self-fertile and the 
other self-sterile, are growing close to¬ 
gether and if the ripened pollen be brought 
to the stigma when it is receptive, through 
winds or air currents, the conditions are 
favorable for cross-fertilization. How¬ 
ever, as air currents are the principal 
means for the dispersal of pollen, it fol¬ 
lows that they may he from a direction 
that carries the pollen away from the 
stigmas that require fertilization, hence 
the self-sterile vine must needs he almost 
surrounded by plants that are self-fertile. 
The following varieties are self-fertile, 
and for the past five years they have 
bloomed approximately at the same time 
as Wilder: Worden, Campbell, Wyoming, 
Ives, Lueile, Caco and Concord. Eaton 
follows about two days later. Of the 
other varieties you have growing not in¬ 
cluded in this list Moore, Agawam. Brigh¬ 
ton. Catawba, Delaware and Winchell 
bloom so much later on an average than 
Wilder that it will not serve as a cross- 
pollenizer. Brighton. Isabella and Aga¬ 
wam are imperfectly self-fertile, and 
hence are of little worth for cross-pollina¬ 
tion. 
By selecting the ripe pollen from the 
self-fertile varieties named above and 
transferring it to the receptive stigmas 
of Wilder either by the camel’s-hair 
brush or through taking the entire blos¬ 
som cluster of the variety of the pollen- 
izer and dusting it on the Wilder cluster, 
there is every belief that well-formed clus¬ 
ters will result. The receptiveness of the 
stigma is indicated when its surface is 
covered with a watery secretion. On the 
other hand, the pollen grain is ripe when 
it appears as a yellow dust or powder 
when rubbed between the fiugers. Wor¬ 
den should prove one of the best for this 
purpose. F. E. GLADWIN. 
Selecting Potato “Seed” 
I was helping a neighbor to dig his po¬ 
tatoes in the Fall, and he asked me to 
lay aside every hill that yielded 12 or 
more marketable tubers. These lie re¬ 
served for next season’s seed. This man 
plants just one acre of potatoes every 
year, and he told me that by selecting his 
seed potatoes in this way his crop had 
doubled in three years. The first year 
before picking out his seed his yield was 
six tons, or 200 bushels. Three years 
after that his crop was 12 tons, or 400 
bushels to the acre. N. T. T. 
Chillimore, B. C. 
March 6, 1920 
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